Title?

luizmoraes · June 20, 2015

Updated from 3.4 to 4.0.8. Before the upgrade, the title of my homepage was "MySite.com", and now every time I access my site it shows "Forums - MySite.com". How can I remove the "Forums -" from the title?

Thanks in advance

GrooveOnBeat · June 21, 2015

Where exactly does it show that? Is it above or below the breadcrumbs?

First in the ACP, check Settings -> General configuration -> Site Name

trunkadelic · June 21, 2015

He's talking about the <title> tag.

esquire · June 21, 2015

I haven't looked but if the Site Name doesn't work - which it should - then see the template header to determine whether there is a variable being added for each IPS module and delete it. It's pretty funny to see what the title of this topic is:

<title>Title? - Technical Support - Invision Power Services</title>

This leads me to believe that there may not be a variable, just topic name followed by site name. I think @GrooveOnBeat has it.

trunkadelic · June 21, 2015

He's talking about the forum index page, I think.
The problem is that the <title> before the update was just the Site name, without the "Forums" part. Whereas now it is "<title>Forums - Site name</title>".

GrooveOnBeat · June 22, 2015

1) In General Configurations, check to see if "Add a custom link to navigation bar?" is enabled.

2) @ASkyscraper If you have Calendar does it show up as "Calendar - site.com"?

Another possibility is that somewhere inside the <body> tag of globalTemplates, {$title} was added in. Doing that will cause the title to list the current page and the site name (current page - site.com). The pageHeader seems to keep that under control and only lists the current page as title.

esquire · June 22, 2015

This is tough to do without seeing the site. Perhaps a URL could be provided so we can see what different areas of the site generate.

luizmoraes · June 22, 2015

I am referring to the title of the image below:

My site is only forum-based, so there is no need to the "Forums -" in the main page. Link to my forum: link

@GrooveOnBeat "Add a custom link to navigation bar" is disabled. Calendar also disabled.

Already edited: applications\forums\modules\front\forums\index.php

Edited:

\IPS\Output::i()->title = \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->addToStack( '__app_forums' );

Changed to:

//\IPS\Output::i()->title = \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->addToStack( '__app_forums' );

(thanks do Adriano from SOS Invision)

The problem is that the title looked like this: " - MySite.com "

So, edited: \system\Output\Output.php

		/* Add the site name to the title */
		if( \IPS\Settings::i()->board_name )
		{
			$this->title .= ' - ' . \IPS\Settings::i()->board_name;
		}

Changed to:

		/* Add the site name to the title */
		if( \IPS\Settings::i()->board_name )
		{
			$this->title .= \IPS\Settings::i()->board_name;
		}

Now the problem is that registration page (and some others) becomes like this: RegistrationMySite.com

There is a way to force the archive MySite.com/index.php to show a customized title, leaving all the other pages as originally were? Or a way to make the " - " does not appear when accessing the main Index page?

esquire · June 22, 2015

Hmmm... looking at the IPS forumhome here - which is the only page we're talking about... it looks like this is going on:

<head><title>Forums - Invision Power Services</title>

Using the stock install it also adds a prefix to the home page if Pages is used as a default:

Index - Site Name

Gallery - Site Name

Month Year - Site Name

Downloads - Site Name

Store - Site Name

The only way to change this is to launch the Settings >> Site Promotion >> SEO >> Live Meta Tag Editor and then navigate to the page you want to change (I was on the Pages home and then clicked Forum). You can edit the title and the software will do it for you. This is one of the brilliant parts of IPS4, tbh, very powerful. A little complicated but worth the learning curve.

GrooveOnBeat · June 22, 2015

@‌trunkadelic and @‌esquire were on to something.

Yeah. You shouldn't have to edit any PHP file to get the effect. A change in the globalTemplate template should do the trick, unless something is overriding it.

What happens when you change the code between <title> tags, to your site name, in globalTemplate?

<title>{expression="output.getTitle( $title )"}</title>

GrooveOnBeat · June 22, 2015

I didn't edit any PHP files.

In globalTemplate

Result (in any page)

esquire · June 22, 2015

This will do it without editing PHP files, as per my answer above in post number.... whatever. Go to your CP:

Settings >> Site Promotion >> SEO >> Live Meta Tag Editor

Navigate to the page you want to change (I was on the Pages home and then clicked Forum, for you it might just be the home page so you are there).

Edit the Title tag which is probably empty. Put in whatever you want. Save and exit. Refresh your forumhome and see if it worked.

My test site which may be the home of something cool, don't know, maybe an SEO forum:

GrooveOnBeat · June 22, 2015

This will do it without editing PHP files, as per my answer above in post number.... whatever. Go to your CP:
Settings >> Site Promotion >> SEO >> Live Meta Tag Editor
Navigate to the page you want to change (I was on the Pages home and then clicked Forum, for you it might just be the home page so you are there).
Edit the Title tag which is probably empty. Put in whatever you want. Save and exit. Refresh your forumhome and see if it worked.
My test site which may be the home of something cool, don't know, maybe an SEO forum:

Although <title> has the priority in browser and search engines, the meta tag may work too. I'm not sure if the PHP edits that ASkyscraper did will interfere with the changes though.

luizmoraes · June 22, 2015

This will do it without editing PHP files, as per my answer above in post number.... whatever. Go to your CP:
Settings >> Site Promotion >> SEO >> Live Meta Tag Editor
Navigate to the page you want to change (I was on the Pages home and then clicked Forum, for you it might just be the home page so you are there).
Edit the Title tag which is probably empty. Put in whatever you want. Save and exit. Refresh your forumhome and see if it worked.
My test site which may be the home of something cool, don't know, maybe an SEO forum:

Very nice! Without any PHP file edit, working perfectly!

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